As I was thinking my requirements the other day, I realized that I basically need a referencing/searching functionality in TW, which is independent from (works alongside of) the existing referencing/searching functionality for tiddlers. After I had realized this, I came up with a simple solution.
I created a macro with a syntax like <<myreference "Chapt01_Sect02_Subsect23">>. This generates a link to the online version of the book, to the referenced Subsection. If I want to find out in which tiddlers I referenced this Subsection, I simply search for "<<myreference "Chapt01_Sect02_Subsect23". This is possible because (as I recently realized), one can search for the invocation of a macro by searching for the text „<<mymacro>>”. This solution seems to fit my requirements and it does not require the creating of thousands of empty tiddlers just to enable the referencing of Subsections. It is also easy to add another macro with a different name if I need to reference sections of another huge book I will read. Again, thanks for all your kind suggestions and reactions. Mark S. a következőt írta (2021. április 29., csütörtök, 21:12:32 UTC+2): > I thought the reference tiddlers had content -- external links to file > system documents ?? > > On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 11:48:48 AM UTC-7 Cs Molnar wrote: > >> Thanks for all your suggestions! By „pollution” I meant that, according >> to my understanding, it would be a bad idea to create 35000 „useless” >> tiddlers, which do not have content but only used as references. It would >> make my wiki slow. TW is optimized for the case that tiddlers store content >> and not references. Every time TW or a plugin would run its Javascript >> code, it would have to chew itself through these useless tiddlers, and it >> would happen at almost every content refresh. Also, because I use git to >> version control my .tid files on Node, this would put unnecessary burden on >> my git repository, as well. >> >> That's why I looked for other ways. Not to mention what happens if I read >> 2 other similarly sized books. That would require over 100 000 tiddlers. It >> just seems like a really bad idea to me. >> >> Mark S. a következőt írta (2021. április 27., kedd, 20:52:33 UTC+2): >> >>> I've made a Bible (twice, I think, but I've misplaced one. Possibly on >>> the car roof top). A 6000 entry nutrition database. A 63,000 entry >>> dictionary. >>> >>> You'll have to explain what you mean exactly by "pollution". >>> >>> For your situation, using node.js, there is, as they say "One weird >>> trick." You can create all your reference tiddlers and put them in a >>> plugin. This just means putting them physically in a folder under "plugins" >>> and including a plugins.info file. Now your references will be >>> essentially invisible until you want to link to them. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 6:42:12 AM UTC-7 Cs Molnar wrote: >>> >>>> There is something I want to achieve with TiddlyWiki but I don't know >>>> how, so I hope one of you can help me. >>>> >>>> My problem, in a generalized way, is the following: I want to take >>>> reading notes from a book in tiddlers. The book has chapters (about 60), >>>> every chapter has on average 20 sections, and every section has on average >>>> 30 subsections. This makes around a total of 35000 subsections. >>>> >>>> In my tiddlers I will refer to specific subsections. Later I want to be >>>> able to list all tiddlers which refer to a certain subsection. Also, I >>>> want >>>> my references to be links to the content of the subsection on the >>>> internet. >>>> (The book's subsections cannot be included into my TW, but they are >>>> available on the internet.) >>>> >>>> Of course, the easiest solution would be to create one tiddler for >>>> every subsection and insert links like [[Chapter4_Section6_Subsection23]] >>>> into my notes. This way I could find every reference to a subsection. But >>>> this would mean creating 35000 tiddlers (equivalent to 35000 files in my >>>> TW >>>> on Node.js) to cover all subsections. Even if I didn't create them, I >>>> would >>>> have 35000 missing tiddlers. This approach would heavily pollute the list >>>> of my tiddlers. Every time I would use the $list widget, the 35000 >>>> existing >>>> or missing tiddlers would come up. >>>> >>>> I hope someone has a good idea to save my TW from this pollution, but >>>> still retain the possibility to search for references. I thought that I >>>> could develop a custom widget in Javascript which would store the >>>> reference >>>> list in a JSON tiddler. I'm experienced in JS programming but have less >>>> knowledge on TW internals, so I'm not sure if this is the best solution or >>>> is it overkill. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c8640be3-bfe7-4310-9209-3285e4942357n%40googlegroups.com.
